Tippy Agogo

As far as is known, Tippy Agogo has made four official albums between 1988 - 2008; ecclectic with global, experimental, folk, rock, dance and pop influences - each album, like the shows, have no two songs the same, resembling the live act. On his website, tippyagogo.com, these albums are listed, plus his work with such diverse artists as: SNFU, Sarah McLachlan, Cassandra Complex, Twilight Circus Dub, Legendary Pink Dots and so forth. He is credited as helping start some careers of famous Canadian artists, such as the Smalls,(Corb Lund fame), and based most of his work out of Edmonton, Vancouver and Montreal, plus some notable European cities - Antwerp, Hamburg and Bergen. Alot of his records are sold from his back pocket, refusing to work with most labels, except the small homemade labels of friends. So far as one can see, these are the listed albums: Soul-O-Works(1989), Incantos(1995), Holy Crow(1997), and Creep Forward(2008), plus there is an educational global music book(w/ CD), 'In the Groove'(1993), adjudicated by the Royal Conservatory in Toronto.

The new album, Creep Forward, has notables, Bill Bourne, Rodney Orpheus, Ryan Moore(Twilight Circus Dub Sound System), and Darryl Neudorf(legendary Canadian producer of Neko Case, New Pornographers, Sadies, to name a few, as well as three of Agogo's albums).

A new album is listed in the works with Bill Bourne, and as Tippy put it, 'spAcial guests' - see: myspace.com/nerkelwerks under the guise of Nerkelwerks, who are currently playing shows in 2009.

Tippy started his work as an infamous mock-go-go dancer of k.d.lang, and is listed under Punk History Canada, as part of the mid-80's punk rock scene, notably in Edmonton, playing with members from Jerry Jerry and the Sons of Rhythm Orchestra, Jr.Gone Wild, the Humane Drum Society, Down Syndrome, and 12 Midnite. He has always been, as the media puts it, 'a one man orchestra', and his groups have had from one to twenty people.

Also of note - Tippy held a popular stage at the North Country Fair, and is one of the original members of the Shambhala Music Festival, playing that fest every two years. For more info, see: tippyagogo.com (free mp3s, sound design/film score samples), and general history.

His music is weirdly wide because he grew up with anthropologist/ethnomusicologist parents, living in many cultures, playing mostly his mouth, voice and throat, and an arsenal of homemade and traditional instruments. Later, Agogo got mixed up with the second generation of notable punk rockers and rebel music folksters, although his music had qualities somewhat more experimental, global industrial mix, slightly psychedelic and tinges of dub, no-wave and organic electronica.